Refining Associates Inc. v. United States

HOWELL, Judge.

This is a suit for $20,111.70 which plaintiff contends was wrongfully withheld by defendant from sums admittedly due plaintiff under two contracts for the delivery of oil lubricants. Defendant contends, in effect, that the sums so withheld were to compensate it for losses incurred by reason of plaintiff’s breach of a part of one of the two contracts.

Plaintiff, a California corporation engaged in the business of buying and selling oil lubricants, on or about September 30, 1948, received an Invitation for Bids issued by the defendant, through the Armed Services Petroleum…